Individuals_Interactions_with_Other_Cultures

Intro (80 words) Good morning/ afternoon fellow students and teachers As an individual interacts with others of a different culture, belief and or life situation, opinions of freedom can be both extended or limited. This perspective will be explored by the analysis of three texts. The texts chosen include the poems the French prisoner and the one who goes away these from Ken Watson’s anthology round earth’s imagined corners and Dr. David Corlett’s award winning documentary Go back to where you came from. The French prisoner by Janos Pilinszky provides vision on human desperation and the impacts of the denial of freedom on the individual. Through the authors personal experiences he is able to create emotive images through the use of language features in the poem. The French prisoner challengers the individuals own perspective of freedom. This is achieved by using a vast array emotive language and the depressive tone. This gives the audience a detailed picture of the suffering of the prisoner such as; yet he had hardly swallowed one mouthful before it vomited it back up. “the hands shrunk to bone” The persona of the poem doesn’t show compassion to the French prisoner this is achieved by having a neutral emotionless voice to the poem. This is evident when he refers to the prisoner as it or he its effect is that it de-humanises the prisoner and doesn’t allow the reader to become emotionally attached. This method of poetry is aimed to challenge the reader perspective of freedom and can ether expanded or limit it. The one who goes away provides the personal belief of what freedom is to the author. This personal experience is presented in a first person voice that allows the audience to engage at a intermit level with the persona of the text. Her idea of freedom has no physical home but rather something she carries with her that she has acquired through experiences. This is presented in the final stanza “-My home which does not fit with any geography” the quote uses enjanment to reinforce her final perspective of liberties. However This perspective is juxtaposed and therefore limited by the opinion of others“ sometimes I’m asked if I were searching for a place that can keep my soul from wandering a place where I can stay without wanting to leave” this stanza gives the limited and conservative view of freedom that mainstream society holds. The documentary go back to where you came from, presents six individuals who travel into the world of refugees in order to gain a new opinions. As a consequence some members of the social experiment’s perspective of freedom are extended and some are reduced. In the first interview with Raye Corby stats “I could have gone over thee with a gun and shot them” in reference to the asylum seeker at the detention centre near her home. This option is reinforced with her hostile body language in the interview. After travelling in the footsteps of refugees her opinion of freedom had been enriched. This change is evident in the final interview where she stats “ I would invite them over for dinner, there human being too” in reference to the same asylum seeker she threatened to shoot before her experience. However this change wasn’t shared with the other members of the experiment. This is obvious in Raquel mores’ interviews Where she first stats “ I don’t like Africans and if it was up to me I would send them all back” this opinion is reinforced with her hostile body language and her costume of reviling and disrespectful clothing when in a Islamic country. Her limited perspective of freedom is evident in her final statement “ it’s not my problem”. This documentary presents how different experiences can ether limit or extend an individuals opinion of freedom. In all Through the interactions with others of a different culture, belief or life situation, ones own idea of freedom can vastly extend and or limit. This notion was presented in the three texts as showed an emancipation of the charters or the audience perspective of freedom.